Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Why are these stylish women posing with scientific instruments? Instrument makers in the 1960s used “lovely ladies” to sell their wares, an advertising ploy that’s still around today.
Join Distillations podcast host Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
On today’s episode we cross the Atlantic to learn about a couple of British staples.
Pei Koay reviews Steven Shapin’s Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority.
What do Isaac Newton, yeast, and Harold Urey have in common? They all come under the research microscope of Science History Institute fellows.
Elia Kazan’s 1950 film noir finds new relevance in a moment gripped by pandemic and social unrest.
The MIT chemical engineer and entrepreneur talks about Moderna Therapeutics, a company he helped start, and his work developing a way for vaccines to self-boost in the body.
